Katrin Juliusdottir, Minister of Industry yesterday continued the proud tradition of thinking outside the box and signing an agreement with the aluminum industry, in this case a step on the way to build a new smelter in Helguvik.
Members of Saving Iceland threw skyr (Icelandic type of yogurt) at her car and then the police stepped in and heroically rolled around on the ground with a young woman before hitting her head in the pavement.
I wonder why they had to use such rough tactics. Perhaps she was in possession of illegal skyr?
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kría09
2 years ago
This is supposed to be Iceland? Unbelievable. As it seems, the Russians are indeed already here. As advisors to the police, how to effectively deal with protesters.
The skyr could obviously easily be removed with just a bucket of water.
Dadi
2 years ago
Why didn’t they just walk up to them and ask for their names and then press charges?
Were they afraid that she might have more skyr?
Bromley86
2 years ago
>Why didn’t they just walk up to them and ask for their names and then press charges?
Because she ran. The video is heavily edited, but how do you know he didn’t ask for her name just before 0:22? Likewise it’s odd that she’s thrown to the pavement and then it cuts to the road.
Whether the police were right or wrong in their treatment of her, she was certainly resisting arrest.
kría09
2 years ago
This aggression in all its ludicrous exaggeration appears like a Pavlovian reflex acquired in the past, when people opposing the heavy industry ideology may have been considered public enemies. It should tell something about those days. I would have hoped, that the new government had taken a different stance.
Or, maybe, as they can’t get hold of those people, who wasted Iceland’s wealth, the police are now enforcing the prosecution of any waste of the last remainig resources – like skyr – with a vengeance.
Dadi
2 years ago
Bromley86, I agree that she probably resisted but still? How do you end up with that treatment for throwing skyr at a car? The policeman is really aggressive in that footage…
Saving Iceland has some shady characters amongst their ranks but the police should try everything to remain calm in these times.
Bromley86
2 years ago
Fair points Dadi. I always end up on the side of the police when I see footage over here in the UK about the G20 problems, but I suspect I’m in the minority
. I just tend to think that abusing the police, verbally or physically, is something that Western societies let pass too easily. Or perhaps in only happens in countries where the police are unarmed?
kría09
2 years ago
The bad thing about this kind of action and reaction is usually, that it is going to dominate the coverage in the media, leaving the far more important discussion about the underlying conflict aside.
Dadi
2 years ago
That is true Kria09, the contradiction regarding Saving Iceland is that their tactics always draw more attention to their skirmishes with the police instead of the issues they are supposed to represent.
In this case, no one has asked Katrin Juliusdottir how she feels treading in Valgerdur Sverrisdottir’s footsteps
chris
2 years ago
Bromley86, I live in the US and the police will beat you to a pulp for almost nothing. I see so many videos of Europeans fighting the police, well that would not happen here unless you want to get the beating of your life and 5 years in prison.
Bromley86 move to the US. You would love it here, it is a total boot-licking police state. It would be your utopia!
The US has changed so much since I was a kid. It is like it is not my country anymore. We have lost all sense of morality (like the European countries), so society has broken down. This has gotten far worse with the massive immigration. They are trying to rebuild society with brutal force. The people go along with it because it is so dangerous.
A free and open society only works for a moral society.
Bromley86
2 years ago
When you were a kid, would the police have taken any shit? Or was it just that people were more respectful/moral/deferent/afraid, so the situation never arose?
The US wouldn’t be my utopia though, unfortunately. New Zealand would work for me I think, although like everywhere they have problems.
Ben Reece
1 year ago
Here in the USA, that lady would be a cold corpse. The cops here will shoot you for throwing yogurt. Seems like your police are getting some of the same training as our paramilitary forces do. I wonder, do you notice a general lack of wit amongst your police? I think the reason the police are hiring the less apt is so they are easy to order about. A man or woman with the mind of a child can be conditioned more easily. I predict a rise in the number of state supported, pavlovian attack dogs, and far fewer servants of the people.